My youngest had her first ER visit just this weekend. There was no accident or anything where you would look at her and see anything wrong. Constipation, my friends. It is a silent and can even turn deadly… like a fart. Bad joke? Moving on! We ended up struggling with...

Been a while since my last blog post, apologies! Been a lot of family drama, that I wish not to stir up anywhere. Sadly I wish it were the same for the other part in this diabolical, but what can you do? In the chaos of it all, I brought...

I started playing Pokemon Go September 19, 2016. You would think I was WAY up in levels by now? NOPE! I have children who want to play and who do not have cellphones. They won’t for a VERY, VERY long time, so I allow them to use my phone. They...

It has been 36 days since I started removing soda from my daily routine. In all respects I have been mostly successful! I have had probably 2 full sodas since I started this and both times were special occasions. One was Christmas Day and the other was a movie afternoon...

I never fully understood how people could be so grief stricken when a celebrity dies, we never really knew them as a person. Yet, I was brought to tears when I heard of Carrie Fisher’s passing. It really hit me in my heart guts. I came to see why people...

Let me give you a little background into our Christmas traditions, when it comes to gifts.My kids ask for ONE thing from Santa, and that is it. I am not even kidding, that is all they even want to ask him for. This was not even a tradition started by...

Wherever you go, you hear about how technology and the digital world are having negative effects on our children. Apparently, the evolution of technology and all the gadgets that we are privy to that our parents weren’t has made parenting harder. Well, I’d like to point out that parenting...

Buying gifts for your parents can be quite hard, particularly when they reach their golden years. You feel as though there’s a limit to what you can buy them, and that they already have everything they want anyway. Plus, they’re never helpful and won’t give you any ideas to think...

Your children will need all the attention they can get in order to be entertained this year (image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-portrait-of-human-eye-322070/) It is a well-known fact that learning issues can interfere with your child’s ability to remain focused. The most notable one of these problems is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known...

Growing a business is like bringing up a child. You need to carefully nurture it, making the best decisions to make it as good as it can be so that you can be proud of it. And when you’re frustrated about it, you stop and remind yourself how much you...

It seems with each passing year we’re given starker and starker reminders about the damage that we as a species are doing to the environment. I’m reminded of the scene from The Matrix in which Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith calmly and affably explains to Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus that while other...

Image source So you’re a blogger; you love getting your opinions out there and knowing that some people read them gives you a bit of a thrill, but now you want more – you want to turn your little ole blog into a fully fledged business. Is it possible? Absolutely....

Many of us have goals and aspirations for the year. We might want to lose some weight, get a little fitter or generally take better care of ourselves. Others may have high hopes for home ownership or even a career promotion or a change of career direction. Some of us...

Pxhere You’re not the only one that has found Christmas shopping to be an ordeal, as well as it being a stressful process, the amount of debt you are left with after the Christmas period is something that’s, in no way, fun! But when it comes to tackling this Christmas...

We may still have a fair few months to go until the cold winter winds blow off and the new life of spring, well, springs through the earth, but it’s never too early to get your home ready for this exciting and vibrant time of the year. And, by doing...

Image Credit Put your hand up if you remember Fifa International Soccer from way back in 1993. David Platt was on the cover of the game, PlayStation wasn’t even a figment of anyone’s imagination, and Street Fighter II was its rival in the sales stakes. Fast forward to 2018, and...